• As the baby-boom generation retires in ever-increasing numbers, more people will have leisure-time on their hands.

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  • He knows he is running a site for busy professionals, not a leisure-time hangout for people sharing vacation photos.

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  • Mahathir's great leisure-time activity is carpentry -- another pointer to his loner status -- and he is known to have constructed at least one serviceable boat as well as a functioning steam train.

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  • Research on the few remaining groups of hunter-gatherers in the modern world revealed another facet: far from leading exhausting lives, hunter- gatherers had far more leisure time than their worn-out farming neighbours and seemed relatively well fed.

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  • We look at our business and say, well, we could either abandon (the leisure-side) over time, as there will always be an efficient, lower cost producer, or we could get into it in a much more meaningful way.

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  • Dr. HAYES: Well, it's very complicated, why the - and I appreciate my colleague also chiming in, but some of it is they have been exposed to often - and had the leisure time try to pursue healthier pursuits.

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  • The recession squashed leisure travel at the same time as budget-conscious travellers began going online to research, plan and book trips.

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  • As a freelance writer and musician, I generally have more leisure on my hands than do my time-card-punching contemporaries, and have thus heard my name called as a "single" more times than I'd care to admit.

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  • If, perhaps, you choose to work 90-hour weeks and skimp on leisure time, it follows that work is what makes you happy or at least happier than taking extra time for leisure: otherwise you would not be doing it.

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  • When he left in 1995 to become chief operating officer of MBf Capital, Leisure Holidays had become a fast-growing operation selling time-share property across Asia.

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  • The life of the sarariman, Japan's devoted company employee and symbol of its post-war economic miracle, leaves little time for leisure or the family.

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  • Hilton Romanski is Vice President of Global Corporate Development at Cisco Systems - a busy and demanding job that means his leisure time is precious.

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  • There is also the web control element to endpoint security, which protects users from malicious webpages, phishing links and sets up a time frame from leisure use of computers during non-working hours.

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  • Productivity-enhancing technology has not served to increase the amount of leisure time we enjoy quite the contrary.

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  • Favorites are a recently acquired set of 17th-century Dutch silvered, painted and varnished leather wall hangings, shown with Pieter de Hooch's painting "Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting" (c. 1663-65) in which similar coverings appear.

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  • When women are not working for pay, these statistics show that they are spending relatively more time on the so-called "second shift" of household and caregiving activities while men are enjoying relatively more leisure time.

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